Released: 2001
DCD order@ psyshop
Label: Psylofant Records
» track: unique (substanz-t radio-cut from the Tripped Experiences Album only available on this compilation)
CD 01
ID Name Artist
2 Unique substanz-t
4 Om al Ferno Human Brain Circus
6 Lunay Ludley/Günes
9 New York, London, Amsterdam Elektro Handel
10 Hymna e Basquet Bollistave WNC feat.Tcunami
12 Über Elektro Handel
13 Tired Casey Johnson
15 Gjakove Lover 303 1
17 Scorpios Day Lover 303
20 Too close Nova Drive
21 Goldi Horn Kosmopath
23 Song of the Strutzi Scott Fair
24 Elcuervo Kosmopath and macona
CD 02
2 Eastern Wish Eternal Basement
4 Mondkind 23 Heliopolis
5 Dancing on the battlefield Casy Johnson
6 Riverman The Toms
8 Tempelfest Lava 303
10 Zucken Sonnenvakuum
11 Moonwalk Frami
14 Hashimoto Hanf
15 Kosov@ Angel Klopfgeist
17 Lets have Sex Pat Thomas
18 Marie Johanna Tranceformer feat. Mani Neumeier
19 Melodica Dub Ging Dubby
21 Ode Yavo Casey & the Kids
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Holidays in Kosov@ theplayground
Hurray, finally it is there: The new compilation of the Playground Collective for last years' tour to Macedonia and Kosov@ where Techno events, workshops for children, youth camps and great firestreet-shows were organized and visited. This new compilation is the soundtrack coming with a tour-report, which was published in the late November issue of the Mushroom Magazine - the number one German Trance-Guide. By the way, this report was elected best article of the year 2000 by the readers of the magazine!
The two compact discs contain a wide spectrum of music and information: Ambient, Techno, Progressive and Psytrance are mixed with Trip-Hop, Dub and Space Jazz as well as with Acid Rock'n Roll. Lonesome vocalists make your heart melt away with their guitar. With it comes among the single tracks interviews, parts of diaries, original sequences of movies, Mediterranean jam sessions and folk music from the Balcan region. The latter was played by Mescla, a band from Naples, and recorded by Scott Fair, the restless chief of the Playground travelling section. In the meantime, the more settled part of the Playground Collective, located in Frankfurt/Main, sorted out the numerous interviews and documentaries and produced the music for it. Contacts to close musicians and their scenes and to labels from all over the world were formed. Samples and informational materials were sent out for inspiration and further processing and digestion. Over the wintertime the music was collected, arranged according to its content and its emotional conditions (in accordance with the theory of the LSD psychotherapist Grof) and finally edited.
In April the pre-mix was sent to over 45 artists, musicians and interview partners in Germany, Kosov@, USA, Switzerland, Brasil, England and Italy in order to get feedback and consent for the sample. In addition, the CD was given to students and other people, to labels and sales agencies and certainly to the Mushroom Magazine with the purpose of plumbing the possibilities of categorization, financing and selling the product.
Finally, after hot-blooded discussions, a common international agreement was found. For the final publication, some parts were shortened, the original intro from -Money for your Life!- (Endemol productions), which documented the eviction and demolition of the alternative housing project Michael Barrax, and the live recording of the Apocalypse 2000 - Party, had to give way to the more comprehensible intro for a broader audience: -This is not a dream!-
The finishing refinement to this compilation was given by Marc Pfurtscheller and Psylofant Stefan Ludley in the studio of Kopffussresonator at Limburg in loving and painstaking attention to detail concerning the final mastering of the music, the lyrics and the diverse effects.
A wonderfull Layout, containing Photocollages, Artwork and Mandalas was made by Anne Katrin Zint.
This compilation is not only a product - above all it was a living process: In this synthesis of the arts the co-operation of diverse artists, musicians, DJ's, labels and the publishing media is documented. With it comes a realistic background: The interchange with a relief organization and an international crew on the spot at Peje Kosov@. In co-operation with Balcan Sunflower and the Crossing Bridges Foundation there will be festival at Peje in the end of August. This year's Playground Tour will join this great event. The sales of this compilation will support the Crossing Bridges Festival and the participation of Playground. 70% of the sales go directly to the tour- and festival-organization, 10% are thought to buy the freedom of jailed party organizers in Greece, 20% will be used for the idea of a Playground village which contains the dream of having a free place for artists and for vacation somewhere at the Mediterranean Sea.
Over and above that the compilation serves as an opportunity to promote the Crossing Bridges Festival 2001 at Kosov@ and to spread information and impressions that were collected during the tour of the year 2000.
The motto thereby will be: KosoWars are everywhere. Because it is not solely the tragedy between the Serbians and the Albanians. It is the tragedy itself that all is about: The principles of war in terms of separation, dissociation, nationalism, racism, sexism and pure violence between individuals and groups.
While the Balcan war - with Germany being involved in a military conflict for the first time since World War 2 - still was a public issue three years ago, in the last years there was not much left to see or feel of war. The changeover of power seemed to provide for a change in the country as well. But the problems in the regions of former Yugoslavia are not solved yet. Still, thousands of refugees are trapped in camps,hotels or elsewhere. Not only small villages but whole landscapes are still full of mines and therefore no passage is possible. The industrial infrastructure is destroyed, the unemployment rates are high and the war, where neighbors attacked neighbors, is not forgotten. Hate and nationalism between Serbians, Albanians, Romas and now also the Macedonians are obvious. The Kosov@ now equals an international colony, the currency is the German Mark and the various regions are split in different international sectors. The situation is deathly quiet and as long as no new acute conflict suddenly arises and a deceitful order can be maintained, everybody seems to be perfectly satisfied with this interim.
In order to keep the interest of the people awake ( in the hedonistic sense of it), the international initiative Crossing Bridges was founded. This organization works with the means of art, of juggling, music and performances and will hold a summer camp for children and youngsters, which will finish off with a big festival in the Soccer Stadium of Peje. This festival, which started out as a small Techno event at Peje last year, will be the beginning of a whole series of action, parties and caravans in the countries of former Yugoslavia. Various groups and networks are going to be involved. Therefore many further different activities like creative workshops, a radio-report tour through the villages, drum-circles and Gong-meditation by Jens Zygar (Starsound Orchestra) are planned.
All this is about intercultural exchange and encounter, about self-organization and help for self-help. Certain issues are to the fore in this context: How will it be possible to live together peacefully in this crisis area and what is to be learnt from the correlated conflicts and problems? Another question connected to these conflicts does concern the part the fortress Europe hereby plays. What have we to do with these problems? In what way are those conflicts mirrored in our own country, in our own families, in our self?
How can music, dance and performance help to break up barriers of language, culture and identity? How can this process lead to new ways to perceive the world?
The culture of Techno is a global phenomenon. In the different branches of electronic dance-music the sounds and cultures of this our world are united. Trance-music is international and everyone has a body to dance with, no matter of origin or race. The world is as many-colored as this compilation!